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Chris Burn
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Head of Business and Features at The Yorkshire Post, Stoke City fan.
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Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · Nov 15
It's a work in progress but here's a starter pack of regional journalists in the UK, including national reporters working outside of London...
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New: £160m of taxpayer funding for Doncaster Sheffield Airport will not be released until a controversial lease with 'favourable' clauses to landowner Peel is renegotiated by Doncaster Council. Talks ongoing over potential changes but no agreement in place:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: £160m funding won't be released until lease is changed
The release of £160m of taxpayer funding to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport will not happen unless the terms of a controversial lease for the site are changed – with a deal yet to be agreed, The Yo...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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NEW: Mayor Jones is responding to today's revelations re) DSA lease.

She says: "Peel had the ability to terminate the lease if they failed to obtain planning permission. BUT, let me be perfectly clear, that clause did not guarantee that they would receive planning permission and...
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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REPORT: Reform UK may suspend support for reopening DSA, the local chairman has said following the leak of the council's lease with landowners Peel
Reform UK threaten to suspend DSA reopening support after leak of lease with Peel
Reform UK Doncaster has threatened to suspend its support for efforts to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport if the Mayor and City of Doncaster Council continue to “withhold information”, after clauses...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Doncaster Council secretly agreed that the lease for its use of Doncaster Sheffield Airport could be terminated if it did not approve plans for more than a thousand houses by the site’s owners, a leak to The Yorkshire Post has revealed.
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport: 'Approve housing or lose lease' clause revealed by leak
Doncaster Council secretly agreed that the lease for its use of Doncaster Sheffield Airport could be terminated if it did not approve plans for more than a thousand houses by the site’s owners, a leak...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland.
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“This has been very badly received across the UK.” Keir Starmer was doing his best to make the collapse of the post-war international order sound dull. It is a job for which he is uniquely well equipped. The prime minister could make the start of nuclear war sound like an announcement that the rail replacement bus service has been cancelled. He might yet get the chance to try. For the benefit of the future historian trying to piece 2026 together from fragments of satire, the specific subject this Monday morning was Donald Trump’s announcement that he was imposing escalating tariffs on all of Europe, and possibly the entire solar system, until we give in and acknowledge him as God Emperor of Greenland. Trump is now in the “making his horse a senator” stage of his presidency, and it turns out that the US constitutional checks and balances about which we’ve all heard so much relied too heavily on there being people in Washington with spines.
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Official press-release, English version, on Trump's letter:

www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Update to Nixon's Madman Theory: now with no theory, but with an actual madman.
January 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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'An astonishing note'

Faisal Islam tells #BBCBreakfast about a 'truly extraordinary' exchange of letters between Donald Trump and the leaders of Norway and Finland
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Robert Jenrick
alan partidge can i just shock you i like reform
January 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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For someone who gets talked up in Westminster so much, Robert Jenrick is an amazingly charmless and uncharismatic speaker IMO.
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Why is Robert Jenrick called 'Honest Bob', you ask?
It was coined by John Crace after Jenrick overruled an objection to ex pornographer and ex publisher Richard Desmond's property development saving Desmond £40m and coinciding with a donation of £12,000 to the Tories.
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Westferry planning row: Jenrick texted property developer, documents show
Labour say documents show
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January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.
A Rush Hour Crush I got published on 7th January, 2015. To the sexy Spanish snorita on the No.30 bus to Highbury. I loved our heated chat on Friday but realise what I did was insensitive to your country. I'm mortified. Please let me make up for it, over tapas or paella or whatever. Bearded Man Who Used Discarded Burger Cartons As Castanets
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Internet traffc in Iran has dropped to effectively zero as of 18:45 UTC (22:15 PM local time), signaling a complete shutdown in the country, and disconnection from the global Internet.

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January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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I miss Old Twitter part VI. Steve Bruce photoshopped into wedding photos.
January 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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dillo.media
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May
December 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Genuinely stunned that Michael van Gerwen is 36. Honestly thought he was about 50! #hardpaperround
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Great British Menu star Michael O'Hare has declared himself bankrupt following the closure of a Leeds restaurant part-owned by Gary Neville. It means creditors are unlikely to get any returns from a £600,000 director’s loan account:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/mic...
Great British Menu star Michael O’Hare declared bankrupt following closure of Leeds restaurant
Acclaimed chef Michael O’Hare has declared himself bankrupt following the closure of a Leeds restaurant part-owned by Gary Neville, a recently-published administrator’s report has revealed.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Really news breaking on PA: Driving Home For Christmas singer Chris Rea died aged 74 earlier on Monday in hospital following a short illness, a spokesperson for his family said.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Reform Goes Woke! My SKETCH of Richard Tice asking us all to Mind Our Language. thecritic.co.uk/a-be...
As it turns out, it was something else entirely. “Four weeks ago, when I gave a press conference, I offended a number of people talking about SEND.” The penny dropped. This particular moment of plain-speaking was when Tice suggested that parents were faking their children’s special needs diagnoses to avoid VAT on school fees, and described the sight of children wearing ear defenders in class to help them focus as “insane”. Not surprisingly, this has gone down badly with parents of kids with special needs. But quite astonishingly, Reform turns out to care what those parents think. “We never stop learning in life,” Tice said, sounding like the kind of California hippy who will be deported on the first day of Farage’s Glorious Rule. He began talking about the frustrations of parents who want help for their children. In my notebook, I find I have written “IS HE ACTUALLY BEING SINCERE?” And he really did seem to be. It was hard to understand. Everything we’d seen up to this moment suggeste
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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HOLY SHIT
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Dec 15
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
ariehkovler.com Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · Dec 14
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM